"You have to get down lower, Pez."

"I am!"

"No, lower."

"Here, this better?"

"Yes. Now you have to remember to thrust it out there."

"I am thrusting!"

"Harder."

"I'm thrusting as much as I can!"

"Ugh! I can even do this!"

"Really, then do it!"

"Fine! . . . There!"

"You look really funny doing that, you know?"

"Shut up! I'm not used to the longer ones. I usually have a short one."

"Yeah, well mine's pretty long."

"I know. Try the thrusting again."

"That better?"

"Perfect! Now try that move on me."

"I don't wanna hurt you."

"You won't hurt me, Pez. And we both have protection. It'll be fine. Trust me."

"Fine."

"Ahh!"

"Oh my gods! Did I hurt you?"

"No, you idiot! You completely missed me! And you'd know that if you kept your eyes open."

"Sor – ry!"

"Have you ever done this before, Pez?"

"Yes!"

"With a girl?"

" . . . No."

God! How – how can you sick, sick people be thinking that? They only had their first kiss like two days ago, you nasty minded perverts!

Annabeth sighed. They had been working on perfecting this sword trick for about an hour now, and Pez was getting nowhere. Sure, he looked real sexy with a sword in his hand and the sweat running down his brow, but he absolutely sucked when it came to swordsmanship.

She showed him the move one more time, hoping he would finally pick it up so they could get to the next one.

"Ready?" she asked him.

She could see him gulp. "I think so."

She came toward him, sword ready, expecting him to block her hit, and knock her sword out of her hands, but instead they ended up with Pez lying on his back, breathing heavily, and Annabeth sitting on his chest, sword to his throat. At any other time, Pez would have seriously liked his position right now, if you just took out the sword and the whole 'Pez got beaten by a girl!' thing.

"I suck."

"You're not that bad," Annabeth said, trying to lighten the mood, but since she was still sitting on his chest, he still felt awful.

"Aren't you nice?" he said. "You know I'm terrible, just admit it."

"Yeah, you are."

"Hello? You're my girlfriend now. I thought you were supposed to be nice to me."

"I should be, but I don't have to." She smiled at the angry glare he was giving her.

"You suck," he said before sticking his tongue out at her. She did the same, and they continued to go back and forth until Annabeth was leaning over so much that her nose was just about to touch his. Pez barely had to move at all to kiss her, leaving a smile on her lips. She got up from his stomach, and grabbed his hand to help him up as well.

"Just a few more times, and I think you'd ha-"

"No!" moaned Pez. "We've been working all day."

"We've barely been practicing for an hour."

"Yeah, and that was an hour too long." She glared at him. "Can't we have some fun for once?"

"We need to practice. All I've been doing since you got here was having fun."

"No, I mean fun." He raised his eyebrows up and down, and licked his bottom lip for extra effect.

But it didn't help. She hit him in the chest and said, "You're disgusting!"

"I'm a seventeen year old boy. It's what I do."

She rolled her eyes, and handed him his sword. "Just one more hour."

"No!" he groaned.

"Do you wanna die on this quest?"

"I don't even wanna go on this quest!"

She gave him the puppy dog eyes. "Please."

No answer.

"For me."

That always seems to work.

With a sigh, he grabbed his sword and got in the correct stance.

"We want a quest," Annabeth stated to Chiron. They had been waiting a while before asking, knowing that they needed to practice and figure out a plan.

"You do?"

"Yes."

"What might this quest be about?"

"Percy. He's in trouble."

He gave Pez an interested glance as if knowing how much he dreaded this. "How so?"

"Ate's got him captured on Calypso's island."

"Ate?" Now this got his attention. He hadn't heard of the troublesome goddess in quite some years. He thought she had disappeared.

Annabeth nodded. Pez was just quiet in the corner again. No one knows why, but he always seemed quieter around Chiron. Maybe it was due to the fact that he was practically Annabeth's father, or maybe it was because he was half freaking horse.

"She wants revenge on the gods and the Titans and she's here to take over the world.

"And how do you know all this?"

"I had a dream."

Chiron sighed. "Are you sure about this Annabeth? Sometimes dreams tell you things that aren't true."

"I'm sure, Chiron. I know Percy's in danger."

He sat in thoughtful silence for some time before saying, "Go and talk to Rachel."

Annabeth's face beamed. "Thank you so much Chiron!" she said before enveloping him in a giant hug.

She ran up the stair to the attic with Pez right behind her. Quickly she knocked on the door covered in rock band posters and paint. A girl with frizzy red hair wearing a kimono that had red paint splattered on the side of her face opened the door to find the two standing there. "Hey Annabeth," she said casually and walked back into her room. "Sup new guy."

"Rachel this is Pez. Pez this is Rachel," introduced Annabeth.

"Oh yeah," she exclaimed. "You're the dude that broke up Percabeth." Annabeth rolled her eyes while Rachel gave him a high five. "I tried doing that once. Didn't work out." She suddenly noticed Annabeth's glares and changed the subject. "So, whatcha need?"

"We need a prophecy. We're going on a quest."

"If you already know where you're goin' and stuff, why do you need a prophecy?"

"I don't know, it's just like a rule or something."

"Whatevs." Rachel sat on her little bed on the corner of the room. The attic wasn't all that big, but covering almost all of the walls were numerous posters for movies, TV shows, bands, everything. In a corner of the room was an easel for painting. It looked like she was in the middle of painting something that looked strangely like a zombie from a video game Pez used to play. That's sure different than the normal bowl of fruit people usually paint. Pez kinda liked it.

Rachel sat on her bed, eyes closed, looking down at her lap. Pez had never seen a prophecy being given before and was a bit scared at what was going to happen. Was she going to burst into flames? Kill someone? Start doing the Macarena? Get undressed (Pez really wouldn't have hated this one too much)?

But no. After three minutes of just sitting there, all she did was look up and say, "I got nothin'."

"What do you mean, you've got nothing?" Annabeth asked rudely. Pez couldn't help but be a bit ticked at how much she cared for this quest.

"It means, I've got nothing. I don't have a prophecy for you Annabeth. Sorry." She got up from her bed and went back to the zombie picture. She stared at it a bit before grabbing a brush and adding a bit more blood.

"But Rachel, I need a prophecy."

"Then you might want to ask another oracle, cause I don't have one."

Annabeth glared at her a bit before stomping out the door. "Later Percabeth guy," Rachel said before Pez left.

"It's Pez."

"Whatever."

He closed the door behind him as he left and went back to the main room with Chiron and Annabeth. "I'm sorry Annabeth, but if you don't have a prophecy, then you don't have a quest."

"But –"

"No buts." The conch horn blew in the distance. "Now I believe it's time for you both to be going off to dinner." He stared at Annabeth's distressed face. "I'm sorry my dear." He got up from his chair and walked off towards the dining pavilion.

Annabeth and Pez started walking that way too. Pez couldn't help himself. He had a smile on his face. Yes, Annabeth would be a bit mad, and dipressed for some time, but Pez could help her get over it. Before he could walk off to the Hermes cabin, Annabeth grabbed his arm. "Meet me behind the pegasus stables right after dinner with all of your stuff ready."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, we're sneaking out."

What smile?

So yeah. Don't have much to say, except that if you don't review, then aliens from Mars will come and abduct you from your house and take you to their mothership, and do weirdo tests on you until you turn butt ugly, and look like Robert Pattinson. Ugh! Nasty!

PJO I do not own! What what! Throwin it Yoda style at cha!

:) Jordan

PS Happy belated Thanksgiving!

PPS I'm gonna make a fic of that whole Twisty Tie thing from chapter 5 or whatever! I haven't finished yet, but it should be up soon!